Laughing American comics, I am becoming more and more like a clown

But Lucien gradually lost his sense of time, and he felt a little anxious as he felt the two gazes staring at him.

"The Joker is a symbol... In my impression, it is true. We even think that Gotham without the Joker is not Gotham." He finally started to make small talk.

"us?"

"We...readers." Lucian explained, and then there was silence again.

He began to miss Nightwing.

At least the atmosphere was relaxed when he was chatting with Nightwing just now, and there were no blatant Joker hallucinations.

……

Three hours have passed...

Batman and the Joker stayed with Lucien without saying a word.

Until the medical staff came in one after another, Batman and the Joker disappeared.

……

Tonight was different, or rather every night since Gordon's death had been different.

For Gotham, the Bat-Lantern is the city's moon.

For many years, although people sometimes hate and curse Batman, they have long been accustomed to the bat-light that penetrates the clouds at night.

And now? No more bat lights, no more that unshakable light that pierced the gloom.

After Gordon's death, no one lit the Batlight on the rooftop of the GCPD anymore.

This is not to say that the police station has no problems and Gotham has no disasters, but that people dare not do so. After all, anyone who has something to do with Batman and lights up the Bat-Lantern will not have a good death.

Harvey Dent is like this, and so is James Gordon.

Almost everyone who could light the light but didn't do it thought so, and the rest of the people wished that Batman would die a miserable death as well.

"We are all crazy, whether it's the Joker or Batman."

"Those people talk about morality and justice, but you saved them, and yet they hate you. But I won't, even if you beat me to the point of barely surviving."

"I'm still grateful to you, Batman, for making me whole."

The Joker stands beside Batman like a phantom:

"I know you've always wanted to know where I come from."

"You're using this as leverage to get me healed."

"It's as ridiculous as the idea that Batman isn't crazy and Gotham can still be saved."

They stood together, side by side, with almost the same temperament.

It's like standing on the edge of an abyss with arms outstretched, only the heels touching the ground, ready to plunge into the abyss at any time, carrying all the emotions and past.

"Okay...well, now that I'm dead, it's not a secret anymore."

"Let me tell you a story."

The clown began to tell stories again.

There have always been many stories about the Joker.

Absurd, grotesque, tragic, ridiculous...

There's no shortage of stories about Joker.

"Maybe it wasn't that long ago, but it sure is a long time for the Joker."

"There was a child. He was not smart, kind, or beautiful, but he was not miserable, pitiful, or evil either... He was just an ordinary child."

"A child who is completely different from you."

"He lived an ordinary life, going about his business as usual... One day, he suffered an accident."

"An accident. I forgot what accident, but accidents are not uncommon in Gotham. Bruce, accidents are the norm in Gotham, aren't they?"

"So this ordinary child came face to face with the horrors of human nature."

"What kind of horror was it... I forgot again, anyway, it was about a horror that made you laugh, and so... I was born."

"It's the Joker! Bruce, it's the Joker! The Joker is born!"

A third-rate story that can't even be called an anticlimactic one.

His voice became calm again, gentle and humble, with an indescribable question and verification.

"Look, this is just an ordinary child... How many ordinary children like him are there in this city?"

"How many children like this are dying in Gotham right now?"

"And how many can you save?

The Joker seemed to be whispering in Batman's ear.

When Batman turned around, the Joker disappeared like bubbles.

But the arrogant smile did not disappear.

always there.

Batman knows that he has also been infected with the Joker virus.

But it was completely different from what Lucian had, or even completely the opposite.

Lucian is able to control his own thoughts and think independently most of the time. Compared to Batman, the Joker hallucination he endures is more like an insignificant scare box.

In Batman's mind, the Joker has been laughing crazily, and his nemesis still does not forget to seduce him even after his death.

Batman knew something was wrong with him, but the phenomena that had alerted him in the past made him feel that it was not that important now.

He remained normal without any control.

Chapter 6: The Clown Gang? Kill the Clown Gang!

Who is most affected by the Joker's final madness this time?

It should be a reporter.

This group of creatures, like sharks that have smelled blood, completely disregarded their own safety. They greedily held cameras and walked through the streets and alleys of Gotham.

then……

Gotham After the Signal Lost: A Madness Like No Other

Will the deaths of Catwoman and Penguin bring stability to Gotham or a new round of turmoil?

Let us mourn the passing of the greatest Gotham Police Commissioner Gordon

versus

Batman's True Identity!

Yes, many people saw the Joker dragging Batman, who was no longer wearing a mask.

All of Gotham knew about it.

Gotham's richest man = The Dark Knight

Bruce Wayne = Batman

Public opinion fell into a strange silence.

They began to try to equate the image of the mascot, who was supposed to be stupid, rich, beautiful, innocent and harmless, with a tight-fitting, perverted, psychopathic and violent maniac who moved in the dark.

Equate them!

……

...can't be drawn.

Public opinion remained silent for quite a long time.

Until the first person unconfidently asked:

"Maybe he just has a dual personality..."

It's outrageous, but the crowd agrees and has different opinions.

"Twin brothers..."

"Magic! Illusion!"

"A frame-up!"

But despite this, Wayne Group's stocks began to fluctuate and began to plummet at a falling trend.

Some news media outlets have commented on the seemingly true and false connection from earlier years, and even some desperate paparazzi and private investigators have entered Wayne Manor...

These are actually nothing...after all, the only unlucky one is Batman.

But more comments have sprung up:

The Super Criminal Who Killed All Criminals...

Slaughtered the greatest madman in Arkham Asylum...

The One Who Avenged Us All...

A Clown Hero?

A surging wave came from nowhere:

Is the Joker who killed all the criminals a villain or an ununderstood hero?

This sensational crime against Batman showed its inertia and impact after Batman did not go crazy. Since the Joker killed the first notorious villain, a clown cult has emerged in many places in Gotham. They promote chaos and violence and advocate killing to create a utopia.

This cult following was expanded by the Joker's bloodbath at the infamous Arkham Asylum, but it was not diminished by his death.

Those madmen who had wreaked havoc in Gotham for countless years, who had survived Batman countless times and who could not be punished by secular rules and laws, their deaths had turned their former victims into natural believers of the Joker, including those who had been harmed by the Joker - after all, the Joker was already dead...

They don't worship clowns, they worship violence.

They started killing people.

Just two days after the Joker's death, the "Kill the Joker Gang" appeared...